Figure 5

Distribution of mouse transcript abundances in E12.5 embryo and placenta, and cultured ES and TS cells. Transcript abundances are expressed as log₁₀[copies per cell], varying over six orders of magnitude. The distributions are highly similar, despite the significant differences between the four tissues (for example, monolayer culture versus tissue, placenta versus embryo), suggesting that such distributions are not heavily skewed according to tissue structure or function. The percentage of transcripts present at less than one copy per cell ranged from 40.1 to 48.2% in the four tissues. Bins were centered on indicated values, and the dotted lines indicate values corresponding to mean upper and lower signal intensity reliability limits of one copy per 26 cells to 2,188 copies per cell. For definitions of tissue type see Figure 4 legend.